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Promises to David
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| How do the Old Testament prophecies, Doug, of the Lord's resurrection and return connect to the disciples' understanding that his return to Israel in Acts 1 meant the restoration of Israel? | |
| Yeah, it's amazing. | |
| Sometimes we read things in Scripture without sort of a Jewish context, and we kind of misunderstand them. | |
| And so one of those comments is when the disciples say, Lord, is now the time you're restoring the kingdom to Israel. | |
| These guys are Jewish boys. | |
| So if they're reading the prophets, if they understand their history, which of course they most likely do, there's a promise that's made to David in 2 Samuel 7. | |
| A promise to David, I'm going to have a man on your throne. | |
| I'm going to use your family line. | |
| There's going to be a man who lived forever that will rule. | |
| And that's, as you well know, men and forever. | |
| Those two concepts normally don't go together. | |
| That's right. | |
| It's something that was almost sort of a unique dichotomy. | |
| And then when we jump ahead to the birth of, or prior to the birth of Jesus, the angel shows up to Mary and says, you'll name him Jesus. | |
| He'll be great and be called the Son of the Most High. | |
| And that's usually where we stop with it. | |
| But he continues and says, the Lord will give him the throne of his father David, and he will reign over the house of Jacob forever, and his kingdom will have no end. | |
| So again, he's in the line of David. | |
| I'm giving you a son, and he's going to live forever. | |
| And he's going to rule over the house of David. | |
| He's going to rule on the throne of David. | |
| And so for the disciples, by the time the book of Acts comes along, he's already been crucified. | |
| He's been raised to life. | |
| He's been teaching about the kingdom for 40 days. | |
| And the first question that's recorded that they ask after 40 days of listening to him talk about the kingdom of God, they say, Lord, is now the time you're going to restore the kingdom to Israel? | |
| And sometimes we'll read that and go, well, maybe they missed it. | |
| They were confused. | |
| They didn't know what was going on. | |
| I actually think it's just the opposite. | |
| They're Jewish. | |
| They understand the promises that a man is going to live forever. | |
| You were just crucified. | |
| You were dead for a little. | |
| But you're alive. | |
| Man living forever, like you're the only one who can fulfill this promise. | |
| You are the only man who's living forever. | |
| Lord, is now the time you're going to fulfill the promises of David and to restore the kingdom. | |
| It's now the time to restore the kingdom to Israel. | |
| And so even in the eyes of the disciples, the future of Israel is still very much a part and a focus of what God was going to be doing. | |
| There are promises that God has not yet fulfilled to David that still needs to come about. | |
| And so, you know, if we say to each other, like, you know, does God keep his promises? | |
| Of course. | |